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Definition of Offenbach, Jacques in US English:

Offenbach, Jacques

proper noun

(1819–80), German composer, a resident of France from 1833; born Jacob Offenbach. He contributed to the rise of the operetta with such works as Orpheus in the Underworld (1858) and The Tales of Hoffmann (1881).